COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 19 October 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

- Messrs Waters, Ritchie and Co., Auctioneers, Wool, Grain, Product and Commission Agents, report whole sale for the week as under.

All quotations are subject to market fluctuations.

Wheat —Good demand at Government prices.

Oats. —Market firm. Milling 3s lOd to 4s, bright short feed 3s 8d to ?s 9d, medium and inferior 3s 3d to 3s 6d on trucks.

Rfabbitskins.—Summers I4d to 16d, racks 16d to 19d, autumns 25d to S3d, incoming 33d to37d, winter blacks 60d to 75d, winter bucks 36d to 41d, winter does 46d to 50d; second winter does 40d to 42d; outgoing bucks, 26d to 30d; does 30d to 36d; springs 19d to 2id per lb. !

Hides.—Government have now taken these over and valuations are held every fortnights 1 Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly. ' !

Tallow.—Market firm at'late rates. Kough rat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 30s; casks, 28s to 35sper:cwt. Horsehair.— Market quiet, 15d to I6d per lb. . We store and dreßs all classes of seed and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective d.esign, and is operated by practical men of long experience. General Produce Report. Butter.—Best salt, Is 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pats, Is 3d.

Eggs.—2a Honey.—4Jd per lb.

Poultry.— Local roosters,/4s 6d per pair; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair.

Bacon —Rolls, la 3d; hams 1b 4d. Cheese.—lOJd ptr lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconers 7|d, porkers, 7£d; heavyweights, sd.